It’s the witching hour, well that might be a bit on exaggeration; it’s just turned four o’clock in the morning, and the heckling coyotes have definitely just done something I don’t want to know about. Living in a canyon is great, but howls that go bang night can be a little unnerving…. especially since I do have an overactive imagination. (Shocker!)
A normal household spider could never be just that. It’d have to be some deadly redback stow-away 8-legged beast that’s traveled across the seas from Australia with the sole intent of biting me whilst I sleep. A moving shadow floating into some dark corner of my bedroom is a demon waiting for just the right moment to steal my soul. A curvaceous dark-colored branch, strew harmlessly in the middle of the road, is an Inland Taipan snake waiting to swallow me whole as I jog by! I’ve even transformed a local chunky100lb dog or 2 into mountain lions.
In my own defense, I’m not completely off the mark. As I said, I do live in a canyon, in a little ole house that has, and I quote my cable guy verbatim, “the biggest black widows he’s ever seen!” underneath. In my attic I did find a dead, albeit small scorpion, but hey a scorpion is a scorpion! There’ve been a few mountain lion attacks, and numerous actual sighting in the last few years. While, my back yard is harmless (rodents don’t scare me) it does back up against a hill that appears to hold nightly revival/dinner meetings on a “no membership required” basis, for all of the local 4 legged wildlife population of raccoons, opossums, coyotes, skunks… However, given that I am deathly afraid of snakes this little nugget is by far the worst! According to my landlord the hill is also “rattlesnake infested”. (Of course this wasn’t mentioned to me when I signed the lease…)
Come on, you’d have to agree that unless you were trying out for a Jeff Corwin type job on the Animal planet “The hill” is a no go zone ……
I love where I live, but it does provide my overactive imagination with a little too much “How many ways can Billie, die a grisly death ” brain fodder. From my queen-sized bed I have co-starred in The Hills Have Eyes, pt 7, Arachnophobia, Halloween pt 6, and both installments of The Exorcist... However, of late I have been getting a little move adventurous and creating my own scripts....
Of course, these midnight musing always take place on “The Hill” and usually I am the high heeled, mini skirt wearing hero of the day who saves all innocents!...I been almost sucked dry by a lovelorn vampire who wanted an eternal companion, attacked by werewolves, nearly sacrificed to the devil, by stay at home mothers turned snake worshipping Satanists, practically eaten alive by a mutant snake/spider creation who needed human flesh to survive, held captive in an underground air-restricted chamber by my creepy neighbor and dragged down to hell by the chap in Nightmare on Elm street!...you get the drift me thinks...OVERACTIVE is the word of the night!
You might ask why is my mind going haywire tonight and what did I mean by “Today I received a severed finger in the post....”?
Today I went to the letterbox and there in its evil mitts, was a lovely little black box. Thinking some unknown admirer had sent me a priceless jewel I opened it up and instead found a severed finger with black ribbon wrapped around it, nestled in an avant -garde arrangement of straw...along with this ‘flesh toned jewel” was an invite to a fab Halloween party from one of my most wonderfully creative and voodoo influenced friends! Some people send cards...evites...even call you on the phone and say hi “ I’m having a party wanna come?”.... not her!
Of course given the originality of the invite the pressure is on ... What do I wear?
Hopefully, my overactive imagination will be of some use at last!
FYI: This is the type of downright silly blog one writes after receiving a severed finger in the post....
Bx
27 October, 2009
11 October, 2009
I’ve been asked by several people why someone who is clearly British, is singing “America the Beautiful” at the national equality march. There are many reasons why I want to be involved, but before I get to those, I have to confess that every time I’m asked that question I wonder to myself “why ask, isn’t it obvious?” Isn’t it obvious that everybody should be throwing his or her support behind this weekend’s national equality March? Isn’t it obvious that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people, not only across America, but also across the world should have equal protection in all rights? This march is not about who sings but about why they do.
Some people have complained saying that marches are ineffective and a “waist of time”, thank you for your support Barney Frank. To them, I say, silence and inaction, no matter which way you slice or dice are less effective still, and if anything only encourage our opponents agenda.
“Never be bullied into silence.Never allow yourself to be made a victim.Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.class
I am bisexual, and I make no apology for that fact, and in this case of my sexual identity trumps my nationally. The people attending the national equality March are not marching because they want some type of exclusive, out of the ordinary treatment; they are marching because they want to be treated like absolutely everybody else. I do not profess to be an expert on constitutional law, but it’s my understanding that the amendment speaks to “separation of church and state and that the 14 amendment guarantees “equal protection under the law and provides liberty and justice for all. I believe the US Constitution has been amended 27 times since it was adopted and with the exception of prohibition not one of those amendments sought to restrict civil rights, only expand them. As such, and please correct me if I am wrong, does that not mean that people who are using (abusing, in actuality) religion, in this case, Christianity, as the default criteria for equality goes against the very doctrine upon which America was founded? Confused, me too, given that the vast majority of people who oppose equality seem to delight in justifying their stance by quoting the bible!
If we were to apply this criterion across the board wouldn’t it mean that people of different religions are not married in the eyes of the law?So next time someone says For a man to lie with another man as he would a woman is 'toevah'" (Leviticus 20:13), tell them that in that very same passage we are also told that eating shrimp is “toevah”(roughly translated means sin)). Ask them, if this the very same bible that happily states that a father may sell his daughter into slavery, (Exodus 21:7) that touching pigs skin makes us unclean (Leviticus 11:8) and that a person should be put to death for working on the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3).
Equal rights are not special rights they are the rights of every human being. Full Equality means the right to work jobs, go to school free of harassment and discrimination, protection from hate crimes, equitable healthcare, the option to donate blood, equitable immigration policies and status, marriage and the right to serve in the military openly.
“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one” (~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988)
November of this year we saw the first election of an African American to the highest office but on that very same day I saw the passage of a law in California that prohibited marriage between same-sex.-...that’s the definition of one step forward two steps back ..so please stop telling me to be patient..i want equality and I want it NOW.
Obama has said that nobody has the right to be penalized and for whom they love, however, for all the lovely rhetoric, it’s sad to note that equality as an issue has become a political hot potato of sorts, being batted back and fourth between both democrats and republicans. Despite election promises, the Don’t ask don’t tell” has not been amended and quality as it relates to government benefits has not been afforded. Whatever happened to “Yes, we can” ...I had hoped that after almost a year in office that the GLBT community would be saying, “Yes we did!”
Today, I will stand in Washington and sing (hopefully in tune)… in reality it’s a very small thing to do but at least I say I’m not being silent or complacent let’s all take an active role in battling prejudice and discrimination around the globe.
Some people have complained saying that marches are ineffective and a “waist of time”, thank you for your support Barney Frank. To them, I say, silence and inaction, no matter which way you slice or dice are less effective still, and if anything only encourage our opponents agenda.
“Never be bullied into silence.Never allow yourself to be made a victim.Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.class
I am bisexual, and I make no apology for that fact, and in this case of my sexual identity trumps my nationally. The people attending the national equality March are not marching because they want some type of exclusive, out of the ordinary treatment; they are marching because they want to be treated like absolutely everybody else. I do not profess to be an expert on constitutional law, but it’s my understanding that the amendment speaks to “separation of church and state and that the 14 amendment guarantees “equal protection under the law and provides liberty and justice for all. I believe the US Constitution has been amended 27 times since it was adopted and with the exception of prohibition not one of those amendments sought to restrict civil rights, only expand them. As such, and please correct me if I am wrong, does that not mean that people who are using (abusing, in actuality) religion, in this case, Christianity, as the default criteria for equality goes against the very doctrine upon which America was founded? Confused, me too, given that the vast majority of people who oppose equality seem to delight in justifying their stance by quoting the bible!
If we were to apply this criterion across the board wouldn’t it mean that people of different religions are not married in the eyes of the law?So next time someone says For a man to lie with another man as he would a woman is 'toevah'" (Leviticus 20:13), tell them that in that very same passage we are also told that eating shrimp is “toevah”(roughly translated means sin)). Ask them, if this the very same bible that happily states that a father may sell his daughter into slavery, (Exodus 21:7) that touching pigs skin makes us unclean (Leviticus 11:8) and that a person should be put to death for working on the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3).
Equal rights are not special rights they are the rights of every human being. Full Equality means the right to work jobs, go to school free of harassment and discrimination, protection from hate crimes, equitable healthcare, the option to donate blood, equitable immigration policies and status, marriage and the right to serve in the military openly.
“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one” (~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988)
November of this year we saw the first election of an African American to the highest office but on that very same day I saw the passage of a law in California that prohibited marriage between same-sex.-...that’s the definition of one step forward two steps back ..so please stop telling me to be patient..i want equality and I want it NOW.
Obama has said that nobody has the right to be penalized and for whom they love, however, for all the lovely rhetoric, it’s sad to note that equality as an issue has become a political hot potato of sorts, being batted back and fourth between both democrats and republicans. Despite election promises, the Don’t ask don’t tell” has not been amended and quality as it relates to government benefits has not been afforded. Whatever happened to “Yes, we can” ...I had hoped that after almost a year in office that the GLBT community would be saying, “Yes we did!”
Today, I will stand in Washington and sing (hopefully in tune)… in reality it’s a very small thing to do but at least I say I’m not being silent or complacent let’s all take an active role in battling prejudice and discrimination around the globe.
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